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    Title

    Space Entrepreneurship and Investment: The Practitioners' Perspectives

    type

    oral

    Description

    This session contains a broad spectrum of entrepreneurship, innovation, finance and investment presentations from the practitioner's perspective. Suggested topics suitable for this session can be at any level of analysis, including (from macroscopic to microscopic) the space sector, industries (e.g., propulsion), industry segments (e.g., chemical propulsion), individual firms, a portion of or a group of individuals within a firm, or an individual. Example entrepreneurship and innovation topics suitable for this session include descriptions related to entrepreneurship and innovation such as new market sectors, new businesses, new business plans, new projects, recent experiences of start-up companies. Suitable finance or investment topics apply to large programmes, new firms, the analysis methodologies of markets, or new developments in the finance and investment communities (including angel investors, venture capital organizations, and investment banks).

    Date

    2025-10-02

    Time

    15:00

    Room

    Room C2.5

    IPC members
    • Co-Chair: Mr. Joerg Kreisel, JOERG KREISEL International Consultant (JKIC), Germany;

    • Co-Chair: Ms. Daria Stepanova, Germany;

    papers

    Order

    Time

    Paper title

    Mode

    Presentation status

    Speaker

    Affiliation

    Country

    1

    15:00

    Capital Structures Out of This World: Considerations for Entrepreneurs and Investors in Space Activities

    10

    Mr. Scott Schneider

    Australia

    2

    15:10

    aligning investor expectations and realities of space startups in emerging markets

    10

    Mr. Kunal Naik

    India

    3

    15:20

    Proposal for an aerospace innovation ecosystem: Strategic integration of StartUps and Research Centers of the National Engineering University of Peru to take advantage of the Piura Spaceport

    10

    Mr. Alejandro José Agapito Quiñones

    Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Lima, Perù)

    Peru

    4

    15:30

    Redefining Space Investment: Leveraging Jugaad Innovation and SoCal investment approach for a Sustainable South American Space Economy

    10

    Mr. Marcelo Boldt

    Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)

    Germany

    5

    15:40

    Fostering growth, space entrepreneurship and investment into an emerging space ecosystem

    10

    Mr. Daniel Sors Raurell

    Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC)

    Spain

    6

    15:50

    SPACE TECH REPORT: EVOLVING METHODOLOGIES FOR A COMPREHENSIVE SPACE SECTOR ANALYSIS

    10

    Mrs. Eleonora Lombardi

    Fondazione E. Amaldi

    Italy

    7

    16:00

    Mind the Gap: Quantifying and Addressing Europe’s Space Growth Funding Shortfall

    10

    Ms. Juliane Roberta Dahm

    European Space Agency (ESA)

    United Kingdom

    8

    16:10

    Space Investment to Build the Next Step for Sustainable Space Industry

    10

    Ms. Misuzu Onuki

    Space Access Corporation

    Japan

    9

    16:20

    Venture Capital Evolution in New Space: Investment Strategies for Sustainable Commercial Space Ventures

    12

    Ms. Alexandra Vidyuk

    United States

    10

    16:32

    Optimal Capital Structure of Private Equity Investments for Space Economy Growth

    10

    Mr. Trent Pagan

    NASA Ames Research Center

    United States

    11

    16:42

    Tokenized Investment Models for Accelerating Space Innovation

    10

    Mr. Sidney Nakahodo

    Seldor Capital

    United States

    12

    16:52

    Space: The New FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) Destination for Visionary Investors Worldwide

    10

    Ms. Camila Erazo Gonzalez

    Colombia

    13*

    17:02

    Innovation & Investment: How Earth Observation (EO) can deliver on investor expectations

    10

    Mr. Sebastian Chaoui

    Australia